africa: Gender, power and identity in African contexts

The idea of identity is an interesting one to most Africans, largely because it has remained so vexed. The author claims that not only is there no all-encompassing concept for identity in much of Africa, but that there is no substantive apparatus for the production of the kind of singularity which the term seemed to require. The implication of history for an Africans' sense of 'who we are' is complicated, and extends far beyond the scope of academic theorisations of identity.